Nikita Parris Quotes

The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.

I prank my manager. I tell him I've lost my passport, or I've lost my case, or I hide his case. He is so gullible, he is the most gullible person ever.

She's just playing a trick on us. This is just an Alaska Young Prank Extraordinaire. It's Alaska being Alaska, funny and playful and not knowing when or how to put on the brakes.

April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.

It took me a moment. I blinked, and suddenly it swam into focus and I had to frown very hard to keep myself from giggling out loud like the schoolgirl Deb had accused me of being. Because he had arranged the arms and legs in letters, and the letters spelled out a single small word: BOO. The three torsos were carefully arranged below the BOO in a quarter-circle, making a cute little Halloween smile. What a scamp.

I like when people are trapped in the joke, when there's no escape. I like to lead people down the wrong path and then trap them.

Nobody pulls a prank like George Clooney.

When I was about ten years old, I gave my teacher an April Fool's sandwich, which had a dead goldfish in it.

I thought I was funny as a kid. I used to play tricks on my brothers - I'd tie a two-shilling piece to a bit of cotton, then pull it away as they went to grab it.

I do like to shock and surprise people. When it's all in good fun, of course.

I've spiked a toilet seat before, a gallon of milk, even eggs. If you say it, I've probably spiked it before.

I like to put shaving cream in the door handle of people's cars and that kind of thing.

I'm a prankster, so some of the - you know, I like a good joke. I think when it's funny, it's funny.

I try to photobomb as much as possible.

Me and a few of my rowdy friends stole the wheels and tires off a brand-new limited-edition Lincoln Mark III that my manager, Merle Kilgore, had just bought. We left it up on blocks and then we sold his own wheels and tires back to him the next day.

You know me... I can't resist a good prank.

As a wise man once said, “April Fools Day is for amateurs. You NEVER need an excuse to mess with people's heads.”

I'm a traveling practical joker. That's my line of work.

Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.

I like women, but you can't always trust them. Some of them are big liars, like this one woman I met who had a dog. I asked her her dog's name and then I asked, 'Does he bite?' and she said, 'No.' And I said, 'So how does he eat?' Liar!

I did things like get in a cupboard before the teacher came in at the beginning of a lesson, and then, two minutes before the end of the class, I come out of the cupboard and go, 'Sorry I'm late.'

When I was in the hospital they gave me apple juice every morning, even after I told them I didn't like it. I had to get even. One morning, I poured the apple juice into the specimen tube. The nurse held it up and said, 'It's a little cloudy.' I took the tube from her and said, 'Let me run it through again,' and drank it. The nurse fainted.

I would spend a lot of time setting up an accident scene where it appeared that I had seriously hurt myself - hedge-cutter, ketchup, that sort of thing. When my sister happened upon the scene of horror, I would lift my head and pathetically plead for her to 'get Mum'.

The biggest mistake you can make with a prank show is remove the 'real' element, which is the funniest thing.

I love winding up Geoffrey Boycott.